For several weeks, I've been pondering over the massive amount of effort and 'bridge-burning' being conducted....to find some single way of barring Donald Trump from the 2024 election.
Normally, to have such a major win (7-million-plus votes across the nation)....there's just not any reason to 'fear' any scenario relating to Trump.
Total votes (even for third-party folks)? 158,383,000 votes. Twenty-two million 'new' votes over 2016, and twenty-eight million 'new' votes over 2012.
Compared against 2016: 136,669,000 votes.
Compared against 2012: 129,085,000 votes.
Compared against 2008: 131,313,000 votes
Now, if we are saying that the 158-million number can't be sustained? Well, that would be different. The odds, unless we continue with mail-in voting? Maybe it can stay near this level.
But you just look at front-page action since the first week of January, and it just seems like 50-percent of all Democratic Party Chatter is centered still on Trump.
Keeping the suspense up? Eventually, even moderate Democrats will ask if you can't move on....does that mean that Trump will forever be the 'pain' that Democrats must suffer.
I sat through a analysis piece over the weekend....talking about two particular districts on the far west side of Texas....that shocked folks with a lot of Latino votes that occurred for Trump (more than what was expected). While the two Democratic Representatives did marginally win....both now point out that the feeling in the region has shifted, and Latinos seem pretty solid in that area for Trump. If some conversion occurred nationally....with half the Latino population solid votes for Republicans? That really messes up the future of the Democratic Party.
It's just something I ponder about....so much effort, no fence-mending, no pursuit of the future without Trump somehow messing up their business. Just a pretty weird game underway.
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